--- title: Exodus 6:13 (JPS 1917) — And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge… · tree and pragmatics description: And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. Who acts: LORD. 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The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LORD), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:EXO:152 # text = And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 LORD LORD PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 unto unto ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Moses Moses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 unto unto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Aaron Aaron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 unto unto ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 unto unto ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 Pharaoh Pharaoh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the LORD | | | | | unto Moses and Aaron | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | past | the LORD *not said here* | a charge | children *= child* | | | unto the children of Israel and Pharaoh king of Egypt | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient charge=Theme | | 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the LORD *not said here* | the children of Israel | | the land of Egypt | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent child=Theme out land=Initial\_Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהוָה֮ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֣ה וְאֶֽל־אַהֲרֹן֒ וַיְצַוֵּם֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאֶל־פַּרְעֹ֖ה מֶ֣לֶךְ מִצְרָ֑יִם לְהוֹצִ֥יא אֶת־בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃ס [Exodus 6:13: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.13/) **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:EXO:152` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Exodus 6:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.151/) - next →: [Exodus 6:14 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.153/) - ↑ back to [Exodus 6:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.13/)